Joselyne
Joselyne was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,981 among girls’ names; 1,158 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Joselyne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 17 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joselyne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joselyne?
#15,981 among girls’ names, 2025
Joselyne fell from #6,128 in 2015 to #15,981 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 3.1 per million.
101 babies in 2007, the peak
Joselyne peaked in 2007, when 101 girls were given it, #2,028 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,981 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,266 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,833 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,205 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,336 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,436 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,604 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,763 | 10.2 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,128 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,132 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 31 | #4,581 | 17.7 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,454 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,105 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,437 | 26.4 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,269 | 27.8 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,036 | 30.1 |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,028 | 52.5 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,682 | 35.2 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,943 | 29.8 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,899 | 30.0 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,099 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,678 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,369 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,183 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,068 | 24.2 |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,545 | 30.6 |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,568 | 28.7 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,291 | 33.1 |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,562 | 27.9 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,937 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,303 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,932 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,627 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,933 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,453 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,949 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,211 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,380 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joselyne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joselyne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joselyne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joselyne, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,158 Americans ever recorded as Joselyne. The median Joselyne alive today is 21 years old; half are between 17 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,135 people named Joselyne (1,129 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 217 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 782 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 144 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Joselyne born?
The states with the most babies named Joselyne are California, Texas and Illinois, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 349 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 159 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 25 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Joselyne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joselyne is most over-represented in California: since 1986 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Joselyne with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,177 babies since 1880, Joselyne is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 49 babies (10%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Joselyne
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Joselyne and names like it
- Compare Joselyne and JoselineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJoselyne peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joselyne since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Joselyne.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joselyne alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.